. African game trails. Hunting. TREKKING THROUGH THE THIRST 19J. A wounded tommy From a photograph by Kerinit Roosevelt brought down with a single shot. The httle full-jacketed, sharp-pointed bullet made a terrific rend- ing compared with the heavier, ordina- ry-shaped bullet of the same composi- tion. I was much pleased with my two prizes, for the National Museum particularly desired a good group of eland. They were splendid animals, like beautiful heavy cattle; and I could not sufficiently admire their sleek, handsome, striped coats, their shapely heads, fine horns, and massive bodies. The b
. African game trails. Hunting. TREKKING THROUGH THE THIRST 19J. A wounded tommy From a photograph by Kerinit Roosevelt brought down with a single shot. The httle full-jacketed, sharp-pointed bullet made a terrific rend- ing compared with the heavier, ordina- ry-shaped bullet of the same composi- tion. I was much pleased with my two prizes, for the National Museum particularly desired a good group of eland. They were splendid animals, like beautiful heavy cattle; and I could not sufficiently admire their sleek, handsome, striped coats, their shapely heads, fine horns, and massive bodies. The big bull, an old one, looked blue at a distance; he was very heavy and his dewlap hung down just as with cattle. His companion, although much less heavy, was a full-grown bull in his prime, with longer horns; for the big one's horns had begun to wear down at the tips. In their stomachs were grass blades and, rather to my surprise, aloe leaves. We had two canvas cloths with us, which Heller had instructed me to put over anything I shot, in order to protect it from the sun; so, covering both bulls, I left a porter with them, and sent in another to notify Heller—who came out with an ox wag- Head of the old bull eland , . , From a photograph by Edmund Hellef O. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, C. Scribner's sons
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